Finding Neverland Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

It all begins as successful Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie watches his latest play open to a ho-hum reaction among the polite society of Edwardian England. A literary genius of his times but bored by the same old themes, Barrie is clearly in need of some serious inspiration. Unexpectedly, he finds it one day during his daily walk with his St. Bernard Porthos in London's Kensington Gardens. There, Barrie encounters the Llewelyn Davies family: four fatherless boys and their beautiful, recently widowed mother. Despite the disapproval of the boys' steely grandmother Emma du Maurier and the resentment of his own wife, Barrie befriends the family, engaging the boys in tricks, disguises, games and sheer mischief, creating play-worlds of castles and kings, cowboys and Indians, pirates and castaways. He transforms hillsides into galleon ships, sticks into mighty swords, kites into enchanted fairies and the Llewelyn Davies boys into "The Lost Boys of Neverland." From the sheer thrills and adventurousness of childhood will come Barrie's most daring and renowned masterwork, "Peter Pan." At first, his theatrical company is skeptical. While his loyal producer Charles Frohman worries he'll lose his shirt on this children's fantasy, Barrie begins rehearsals only to shock his actors with such unprecedented requests as asking them to fly across the stage, talk to fairies made out of light and don dog and crocodile costumes. Then, just as Barrie is ready to introduce the world to "Peter Pan," a tragic twist of fate will make the writer and those he loves most understand just what it means to really believe.

Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Finding Neverland.

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  Johnny Depp

  Day Drinker, The Tourist

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  Dustin Hoffman

  Kung Fu Panda 2, Riff Raff

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  Kate Winslet

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Lee

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  Julie Christie

  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Troy

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  Radha Mitchell

  The Darkness, London Has Fallen

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  Vanessa Redgrave

  The Lost Girls, Robin Hood

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  Kate Maberly

  Rites of Passage, Boogeyman 3

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  Kelly MacDonald

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, Anna Karenina

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  Paul Whitehorse

Crew Behind the Film

The Finding Neverland behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Marc Forster last directed White Bird and White Bird. The film's writer David Magee last wrote The Tiger's Apprentice and The Little Mermaid.

Director

Marc Forster

Screenwriter

David Magee

Producer

Richard N Gladstein

Production Details

What we know about the Finding Neverland movie production.

Key Facts

• Based upon the play "The Man Who Was Peter Pan," by Alan Knee.

Production Updates for Finding Neverland

Dec 2004

Completed

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